[OOC] Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

[Zeroth]

Orcs.

The ancient enemy of Elves, Dwarves, and Men alike. Why does it seem that every story told about these often brutal, oafish, or downright twisted mockeries of muscle and cruelty treats them as such a menace to all life around them?

Is it perhaps that, like every other Enlightened Race--those capable of forming their own societies, harnessing magic or technology, and sharing distinct cultures--they are bipedal pursuit predators, omnivorous (though perhaps with a preference for meat, and perhaps less emphasis on the preparation of foodstuffs than its consumption), and capable of altering their surroundings to suit themselves rather than relying on their natural adaptations? Does this biological niche simply force them into competition with every other creature that fulfills these same criteria?

Is it because they are prone to being rallied under the flag of an even greater evil who forces them to follow through sheer force or magical coercion, whether or not they will it so?

Is it because their cultures crave violence, or because their brains are less inclined to intellect? Are Orcs naturally born evil? If an Orc became good, would it cease to be an Orc?

Perhaps the answer is more simple. Perhaps Orcs are seen as a threat because of a singular ability, or as this particular World calls it...a Skill.

Ingestion - The ability to absorb certain types of Skills from a given amount of consumed biomass.

Every creature in this World possesses at least one Skill. The Enlightened Races are unique in their capacity to learn as many Skills as their lifetimes and efforts allow. The Demon Races, however--including everything from Greater Devils to the lowly Slime--merely draw Skills from a process of Inheritance, and their innate natures limit the amount or types of Skills they can use. Orcs, for instance, often Inherit the Skills [Berserk] and [Dusk Vision]...and [Ingestion] allows them to, much like the Enlightened, learn new Skills they would not normally have.

In addition to this, Orcs are one of the Demon Races with the most prolific Evolution Potential--that is, a young Orc Runt may show significant variance from the rest of their species by the time they reach adulthood, and adult Orcs may even evolve further into stronger Demons.

Theirs is a rough lot. Only the strongest and most capable have a chance of surviving--and even they will face danger from all sides. Can you imagine, Human, what it would be like to be reborn as an Orc?

How would you fare...?

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Info and Character Sheets

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General Info

In this RP, Players will take the role of characters from "our" world who have been ISEKAI'D during Truck-kun's latest rampage. Before they can truly pass on, however, it seems a force beyond human comprehension had the great idea to use their souls for an experiment: Are Orcs all that different from the other intelligent species they constantly find themselves battling? If members of those same species, such as say, Humans, suddenly somehow coincidentally became Orcs, what would happen?

Your journey, your decisions, and how or even IF your actions shape this world will provide the answers they seek.

I'm looking to cap this at between 7-10 players, for the sake of my own sanity. GM posts would likely occur on a once-per-week basis, most likely on weekends. The game would begin with the Players being soul-swapped into the bodies of several Orc Runts (you'll choose the specifics yourself, of course, during character creation) and awakening in a brand new world full of magic and fantasy. Players will "progress" through the game in typical Open-World-RPG fashion, building on the Skills they start with in various ways and, over time, possibly becoming something much greater than a simple Orc.

In this setting, Orcs are one species within the umbrella of the "Demonic Races." Many Demons have the ability to Evolve, such as a Goblin who becomes a Hobgoblin. Evolution, Level Ups, etc in this strange LitRPG-verse are determined by a collection of factors like age, experience, environmental pressures, and so forth. Orc culture divides their hierarchies in a similar manner. Their skin tones range, based on their habitat and tribal heritage, across mostly earth tones of green and brown, occasionally producing an orange or a blue here and there, sometimes with mottled textures, stripes, what have you. They tend towards a more primitive mirror of early human cultures, typically not showing a lot of metalwork, agriculture, or industry unless they've been particularly successful in establishing their territory or have found themselves a rich pool of natural resources to draw from (or, you know, stolen it from someone else).

"Skills" in this RP simply refers to the "special moves," "magic spells," or other terms for unique feats, traits, and so forth Players and NPCs alike can use to try and accomplish their goals. Something like The Legend of Zelda's [Spin Attack], a Dragon's [Fire Breath] and so on. They'll consist of both magic and melee, actives and passives, all that jazz. Once a Skill is gained by Ingestion or any other method, its Rank can be increased to make it more powerful or versatile. Much like Skyrim, practice makes perfect--but don't think your character can just spam the Skill willy-nilly and level up without any further effort! Diminishing returns, the inherent dangers of the skills themselves, and...maybe some unforeseen side effects...will quickly put a kibosh on that!

Orcs and Progression

In this setting, Orcs are one species within the umbrella of the "Demonic Races." Many Demons have the ability to Evolve, such as a Goblin who becomes a Hobgoblin. Evolution, Level Ups, etc in this strange LitRPG-verse are determined by a collection of factors like age, experience, environmental pressures, and so forth. Orc culture divides their hierarchies in a similar manner. Their skin tones range, based on their habitat and tribal heritage, across mostly earth tones of green and brown, occasionally producing an orange or a blue here and there, sometimes with mottled textures, stripes, what have you. They tend towards a more primitive mirror of early human cultures, typically not showing a lot of metalwork, agriculture, or industry unless they've been particularly successful in establishing their territory or have found themselves a rich pool of natural resources to draw from (or, you know, stolen it from someone else).

An Orc Runt is functionally the "childhood stage," between 3 and 4 feet tall on average and roughly equivalent to an Adult Goblin in ability--indeed, the strongest forms of Goblinoid may be capable of Evolving into Orcs themselves. The faster a Runt learns how to survive, and the more resources and power they accrue, the faster they'll move to the next stage in their lives--something that holds true at every stage.

From here the ladder progresses to the Orc Grunt (2 Images here btw), also known as the "Good Runt," the largest and hardest to control part of any Orc army. Then they become an Adult Orc, (2 more images) gaining roughly a foot in height and other things like muscle mass, body development, etc at each stage. From here, they may take on different roles within the tribe like Warriors, Scouts, and so forth. The Orc Brutes and Shamans are the apex of prime Orc specimens, and beyond that...Well, you'll just have to find out, won't you?

As an Orc Runt, Players would all start the game with the following Skills:

• 1. Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• 2. Isekai Skill - Based on the Player's past life, chosen by them from among a pre-set of Skills I will list.
• 3. Empty Slot
• 4. Empty Slot

But, with any luck, you won't be a "runt" for long! As Players reach certain milestones (such as defeating enemies, surviving and thriving within the world, completing quests given by NPCs) they will "Level Up," which won't have anything to do with stats or rolling dice but will rather unlock new Skills, new Skill Slots, new Evolution options, and so forth! This is meant to serve to help Players self-motivate, as only by pushing the limits of what this new world has to offer them will they be able to take their rightful place as OP Isekai Protagonists!

Character Sheet Information:
Feel free to change the aesthetics, colors, formatting codes, etc if you like to spruce up your CSs! Also, it's completely optional, but consider adding a Theme Song somewhere in there!

Non-Code, Explanation

[Insert Character Appearance Here]

Name: Feel free to include your past name, the name of the Orc you've swapped places with, or even an "Orcish" name your character chooses for themselves.

Current Stats: Use the List tags or some other nice formatting, and remember to update this as the RP goes along. At the beginning of the game, it'll look something like this:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Level is just like it would be in most other RPGs. Form is the species or subtype of creature you currently are. Tier is the rough measure of that creature's potential on the "evolutionary spectrum." For reference, a Slime, a Goblin, a Dire Rat, etc would all be Tier 1 Creatures, and an Adult Orc is a Tier 3.

Current Skills: The List tags are strongly preferred here. Everyone starts with 4 Slots, one of which is [Ingestion] as described in the opener. Once your character's draft has been looked over, I'll give you a list of Skills you can choose from based on your character's past life that'll carry over and you can edit that in.

Equipment and Inventory: Orcs have a tendency to carry whatever they find useful on their person at all times, often wearing numerous belts and pouches made of rough leathers or plant materials. Keep track of it here. You can start with the following items, and use them as an example to describe things you'll obtain in the future:

• (Item's Name) Swaddling Pelts - (Item's Category) Equip, Clothes - (Item's Description) Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: Whatever your character's name was pre-Truck-kun, plus about 5 months. That's how long it takes newborn Orc Runts to mature to the point they can freely hunt for themselves.

Past Life: Give us a synopsis of what you went through before Truck-kun ended it all. By the way, it doesn't LITERALLY have to be Truck-kun that Isekai'd you. Maybe you passed from illness, or violence, or any number of things. But who were you, before all this? And how will it color your perspective on this new chance at life you've been granted?

New Life: As the game goes on, you'll likely find it useful to record important events that happened here. It's definitely recommended that you keep track of your Evolutions, and major Skill Upgrades. For instance, something like:

Day 1, Orc Runt > Day 10, Orc Grunt Variant
Day 5, [Fire Bolt] > [Flame Lance]

And so forth. Use it like a quest log or journal as well if you want.

Code

[img]Insert Character Appearance Here[/img]

[u][b]Name:[/b][/u]

[u][b]Current Stats:[/b][/u]
Level: [b]1[/b] | Form: [b]Orc Runt[/b] | Tier: [b]2[/b]

[u][b]Current Skills:[/b][/u][list]
[*][b]Ingestion[/b] - [i]After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.[/i]
[*][b]Isekai Skill[/b] - [i]Not Yet Chosen[/i]
[*]Empty Skill Slot
[*]Empty Skill Slot[/list]

[u][b]Equipment and Inventory:[/b][/u][list]
[*][b]Swaddling Pelts[/b] - Equip, Clothes - [i]Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.[/i]
[*][b]Wooden Stick[/b] - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - [i]A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.[/i]
[*][b]Sharp Rock[/b] - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - [i]A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.[/i][/list]

[u][b]True Age:[/b][/u]

[u][b]Past Life:[/b][/u]

[u][b]New Life:[/b][/u]

NPC Example

WARCHIEF

Name: Agronak

Current Stats:
Level: 18 | Form: Adult Orc (Warrior) | Tier: 3

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - Unranked -After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Berserk - Rank II - Orc Inheritance. At the cost of suppressing one's intellect and awareness of their surroundings, an Orc enters a savage fury that increases their physical strength and numbs their sensitivity to pain. Lasts 1 minute.
  • At Rank II, physical speed is also increased, though reflexes and perception remain unenhanced.
• Dusk Vision - Rank II - Orc Inheritance. One's eyes need less light to see by, allowing them to see normally in dim light conditions and half as well in darkness so long as it is not completely black. Color perception is half as accurate in dim light, and in darkness the perception of color is lost. This Skill does not apply to other vision-related Skills.
  
  
  • At Rank II, color perception is returned fully in dim light.
• Danger Scan - Rank I - Ingested Skill. Detect non-living threats within 10 feet, such as hazardous terrain, traps, etc. Remain acutely aware of them for 1 minute.
• Slash - Rank I - Ingested Skill. Powerful Bladed attack to enhance a weapon or claws, etc.
• Windsprint - Rank II - Ingested Skill. Increase Speed for 30 seconds.
  • At Rank II, the skill can maintain Rank I speed for 1 minute.

Equipment and Inventory:

• Reinforced Leathers - Equip, Armor - A fur lined jacket, a set of faulds, and pants made from leathers and layered with bits of metal plating and spikes. The leather is of rough quality and the metal is low quality iron.
• Old Iron Boots - Equip, Armor - A pair of boots plated with iron sabatons, shin guards, and an attached knee pad. The iron is of low quality and the boots are well-worn.
• Iron Greataxe - Equip, Weapon/Tool - A large axe requiring two hands to wield, even for those who are proud of their strength. It is a sturdy, if unaesthetic weapon. Can be used to fell trees without too much damage to the blade.
• Steel Dagger - Equip, Weapon/Tool - A well-made knife of good quality steel. It holds an edge much better than iron and is somewhat lighter. Long enough to kill a man, useful enough to clean game or most other tasks for a knife.
• Treasure Pouch - Storage Item - Agronak's treasure pouch. Only he and the person who takes it from him will know its contents.

True Age:
14 Years

Past Life:
The Warchief of the Players' tribe. He has only recently attained his position, and killed the previous Chief when they had already started to grow old and past their prime. His challenge was legitimate and followed all the required rules, but there are still murmurings that "he could have never beat the Chief in the ol' days," and Agronak sees this as a black mark on his pride as a warrior. Thus, he has a heavy hand towards insubordination and is trying to get the tribe ready for a big raid or fight of some kind where he can really prove himself as their leader.

New Life:
Orc Runt > Orc Grunt > Adult Orc, became Warrior

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@Guy0fV4lor@King Cosmos@ReusableSword@Such A Birch@ERode@SubjectVision@Crusader Lord@Kazemitsu@Unkown58

[ReusableSword]

Its nice to have a new place after 5 years... Ill start working on a sheet when im back home tomorrow.

@Zeroth its good to see you again. I hope your new career choice doesnt have you in an early grave due to stress and treats you more like a human.

[Unkown58]

Can't wait to get started! Already made a start on my cs :)

Vola

Name:
Past life = Veronica
Currently = Vola

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age:
23 Years, 7 Months

Past Life:
As the oldest of three children born to a normal middle-class household, Veronica had a normal and happy upbringing with her only complaint having to babysit her twin brothers on occasion. From a small town, where everybody knows one another, Veronica was raised to be a friendly and kind person and to always treat others with respect. She was known around the neighbourhood as a nice and helpful girl who was always ready to lend a hand if asked. However living in a small town came with the drawback of it having little to offer in the ways of big city distractions. As such, she spent most of her days with her nose buried in a book. She loved the escape that a good story could bring and all the new things that an interesting book could teach her. Veronica would read anything, from gripping fantasy novels, to books that told her how to make her own candles, to books with interesting facts about ants. She loved reading so much that throughout her highschool life she had a part time job in her hometown’s small library, during which she probably read every book inside of it at least once. Her second great passion in life is animals, especially of the feline variety. Many an afternoon as spent feeding local strays and cuddling with the family cat while inhaling her newest book. When it came time or her to decide what to do with her life, she decided to follow in her mothers footsteps and get a degree in teaching, so that she might pass on a love of reading to the children that she’ll teach. When she was 23, Veronica had finally completed her degree with high marks and was rewarded for her efforts with a job offer at a primary school the town over. It was a bittersweet occasion, having to move so far away from home, but it was an adventure that she was looking forward to, though not one that she would be able to complete. As she was moving into her new apartment, the movers that she hired accidentally dropped the large box containing her bedframe down the stairs and as she scrambled to get out of the way she tripped and fell, her head cracking open against the railing. The next thing she knew, her eyes were opening to the face of an orc and starting her new life as Vola.

New Life:
Day 1, Orc Runt >

[Zeroth]

@ReusableSword Oh yes, it's much, much better--even a little boring sometimes, lol.

@Unkown58 Nice work, especially so quick! After taking a look at her backstory, here's the list of Skills I think would be most suitable for her to choose from. Pick ONE of these to carry over into her new Orky life!

It is such a tragedy to see a life cut short, just before life's greatest experience has truly begun. And yet, how much had you experienced already, my dear, through the tales of others? That is the beauty of books: to be transported to places and times we may never know ourselves, and to share the perspectives of those whom we may never meet. Not even Death may take this knowledge from you...

• Type Analysis - Rank I - Choose a specific Type for this Skill: Creature, Magic, or Material. Upon analyzing a target, information relevant to the chosen type will be displayed. Higher Ranks will grant more detailed information. (For example, using Creature Analysis on a Slime would tell you the most generic, widely known information on Slimes as a species)
• Rune Scribe - Rank I - Normally, this Skill requires the User to be capable of at least one other Magic Skill. Use a personal writing system to imbue magical effects. At Rank I, the scribed Rune has only half the effectiveness of the original Spell and fades after 1 day. (For example, one could use this with a piece of parchment to produce a consumable Scroll of Fire Bolt--or place the Rune somewhere in the environment with certain spells to create a sort of booby-trap.)
• Magical Memory - Rank I - Normally, this Skill requires the User to be capable of at least one other Magic Skill. By spending a required amount of time in preparation, a Spell can be set to "auto cast" under a specific circumstance. At Rank I, only 1 Spell can be set at a time, its autocast is half as powerful as normal, and it must be reset every day.
• Summon Contract - Rank I - Create a magical contract with an intelligent being to temporarily borrow its power. At Rank I, only Tier 1 Creatures with fitting intelligence can be contracted. Upon Summoning, they will instantly perform 1 Skill/Attack before the Summon period ends. (For instance, a summoned Slime with no Skills would simply lunge at the opponent as if tackling them, and vanish immediately afterward.)

May your tale be as gripping as any you have ever read, little one...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

[ERode]

Did everyone die at the same-ish time? Do you have a particular year in mind, if so?

[Unkown58]

@Zeroth Thanks! I'm glad she's acceptable! :D After careful consideration, I have selected Rune Scribe and updated my sheet.

Vola

Name:
Past life = Veronica
Currently = Vola

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Rune Scribe - Rank I - Isekai Skill. Normally, this Skill requires the User to be capable of at least one other Magic Skill. Use a personal writing system to imbue magical effects. At Rank I, the scribed Rune has only half the effectiveness of the original Spell and fades after 1 day. (For example, one could use this with a piece of parchment to produce a consumable Scroll of Fire Bolt--or place the Rune somewhere in the environment with certain spells to create a sort of booby-trap.)
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age:
23 Years, 7 Months

Past Life:
As the oldest of three children born to a normal middle-class household, Veronica had a normal and happy upbringing with her only complaint having to babysit her twin brothers on occasion. From a small town, where everybody knows one another, Veronica was raised to be a friendly and kind person and to always treat others with respect. She was known around the neighbourhood as a nice and helpful girl who was always ready to lend a hand if asked. However living in a small town came with the drawback of it having little to offer in the ways of big city distractions. As such, she spent most of her days with her nose buried in a book. She loved the escape that a good story could bring and all the new things that an interesting book could teach her. Veronica would read anything, from gripping fantasy novels, to books that told her how to make her own candles, to books with interesting facts about ants. She loved reading so much that throughout her highschool life she had a part time job in her hometown’s small library, during which she probably read every book inside of it at least once. Her second great passion in life is animals, especially of the feline variety. Many an afternoon as spent feeding local strays and cuddling with the family cat while inhaling her newest book. When it came time or her to decide what to do with her life, she decided to follow in her mothers footsteps and get a degree in teaching, so that she might pass on a love of reading to the children that she’ll teach. When she was 23, Veronica had finally completed her degree with high marks and was rewarded for her efforts with a job offer at a primary school the town over. It was a bittersweet occasion, having to move so far away from home, but it was an adventure that she was looking forward to, though not one that she would be able to complete. As she was moving into her new apartment, the movers that she hired accidentally dropped the large box containing her bedframe down the stairs and as she scrambled to get out of the way she tripped and fell, her head cracking open against the railing. The next thing she knew, her eyes were opening to the face of an orc and starting her new life as Vola.

New Life:
Day 1, Orc Runt >

[Zeroth]

Did everyone die at the same-ish time? Do you have a particular year in mind, if so?

@ERode

The idea is that the Player Characters, pre-Isekai, were all from our modern world. They don't all have to have passed at the same exact moment, but as far as timey-wimey shenanigans go I think it should be kept within the last couple of years. Part of the "experiment" is to see how this vastly different mindset affects their growth as Orcs.

@Unkown58 Accepted! You may add her to the CS tab!

[Such A Birch]

Duram

Name:
Past Life: Alexei
Currently: Duram

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age:
25 Years, 1 month.

Past Life:
A lonely child, Alexei was born the only child of an investment banker and realtor. With little time to actually care for their son, his parents often left his to his own devices. His only companions coming in the form of a loyal hound and, eventually, his collection of cookbooks and recipes. A loner during his school days, mostly due to his own social awkwardness, Alexei developed a habit of cooking or baking when stressed. Thankfully that habit is what also introduced him to a few friends who encouraged his dream of working with animals. As an adult, upon getting his degree in behavioral zoology, he got a job working at the local zoo. He truly enjoyed his time there and developed a rather close bond with several of the animals, especially a gorilla name Aisha. However it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, as a freak accident as well as a negligent parent led to a small child falling into Aisha's enclosure. Thankful the child was unharmed however with the panicking patrons and crying child, people jumped to conclusions and animal control was called. Despite arguing that they just need to calm down, and even attempting to deal with the situation himself. All it took was one trigger happy officer and an impulsive decision to jump in front of the guiltless animal for Alexei to open his eyes to a brand new world and an even newer body.

New Life:
Day 1, Orc Runt >

[Kazemitsu]

Future Appearance

Name: Grunthor

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Rapid Strikes - Rank I - Strike multiple times in the same fashion (slashes, punches, etc) at high speed. At Rank I, three attacks can be made at half the power of a normal strike.
• Murderous Intent - Rank I - Focus hatred and the desire to kill through the subtle senses. A creature that is weaker than you must exert its willpower or be Intimidated (Intimidated creatures suffer reduced speed). A creature that is already Intimidated, Shocked, or Unaware may instead become Fearful and be unable to act for 5 seconds. Creatures that are stronger than you can only be Intimidated by this Skill if they are already Shocked or Unaware, but their willpower threshold is higher.
• Tough - Rank I - Increase defenses for a short time by tightening the body, and resist flinching or being knocked back by strong impacts. Movement is slightly slowed while this Skill is active. Consumes Stamina.

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 26

Past Life:
Grunthor's past life name has no meaning nor a place in the new world he found himself in. Who he was didn't matter, because no one knew him in this new violent world. He had been a decent guy, doing no wrongs but not exactly righting any either. Like any human he was kind when someone was kind to him, or sassed when someone annoyed him. He was a give and take kind of guy, giving what he got and treating others moderately well if they deserved it.

What was once an up and coming professional boxer is now an orc runt. Starting at a young age he got into boxing, something any kid could pick up right? Punch, dodge, dance and shuffle around the ring, all easy for a kid. Well he excelled at the combat sport since he had always been an abnormally strong and tough kid. Probably thanks to being from a long line of physically gifted men. As he got older he stuck with it, tossing in a game sport or two to make things more interesting.

Unfortunately being physically gifted did not mean he was mentally gifted. He was quite...average when it came to academics. Proof being barely graduating high school. Once out he got more into his sport of choice, going amateur to start off his potential fighting career. When not boxing he dabbled a little in kick boxing, he already had good legs and footwork but this helped improve it more. What decent boxer had no leg power to push off into a punch with, right? Unfortunately life had other plans, and while he was out jogging the night before his big debut into the big leagues, a truck came out of nowhere and blasted him into the next world.

And now here he is. Small, stringy, and not happy with his new body. Guess he'd have to build it back up. Luckily there weren't any trucks in this primitive world...he hoped.

New Life:
Day 1: Orc Runt >

[Zeroth]

@Such A Birch Looks good! Pick ONE of the following Skills!

One could never imagine an Orc willingly giving its life for the sake of protecting the innocent--save, perhaps, for their own progeny. But for a member of another species? I daresay even I am not sure it has ever happened in this world's history. You present a great potential...but I also fear you may encounter great difficulties. Brace thyself, innocent protector, for this world is not kind, least of all to the Orc.

• Summon Contract - Rank I - Create a magical contract with an intelligent being to temporarily borrow its power. At Rank I, only Tier 1 Creatures with fitting intelligence can be contracted. Upon Summoning, they will instantly perform 1 Skill/Attack before the Summon period ends. (For instance, a summoned Slime with no Skills would simply lunge at the opponent as if tackling them, and vanish immediately afterward.)
• Familiar Bond - Rank I - Create a magical bond with a creature to tame it. Unlike Summoning, this often requires a great deal of time spent, and the creature must remain by the tamer's side. Rather than expending magic power, the proper resources must be present to maintain the Familiar's needs. At Rank I, only Tier I creatures can be persuaded to become a Familiar.
• Guard - Rank I - Increase Physical Defense automatically when attacked for a short time and block attacks with muscle memory. At Rank I, this lasts for a single attack and using other Skills at the same time is impossible.
• Alchemist's Tongue - Rank I - Learn a Material Component's properties by tasting it. Warning: Negative Effects will still harm the User. At Rank I, the Material Component must be thoroughly chewed, but swallowing is not necessary.

If it is any consolation, both the child and the innocent beast have remained unharmed...thanks to you, gentle one...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

@Kazemitsu Yep, everything checks out. Pick ONE from the list!

How strange, that in a peaceful world such as yours there are some who still choose to learn the arts of violence. Then again, I suppose peace is something experienced by the whole, rather than the individual. In either case, it is something that Orcs have little experience with...or use for. I hope that your form of violence, codified by discipline, will be enough to protect you...both from the monsters around you, and the one within.

• Martial Arts (Style) - Rank I - Increase physical power and close combat accuracy when there is no weapon equipped. Individual Styles may have secondary effects that imitate, alter, or tie into other skills. At Rank I, this Skill must be actively triggered, and consumes extra stamina when active. (Specify which Style)
• Smash - Rank I - Powerful Bludgeoning Attack to enhance a blunt weapon, fists, etc.
• Rapid Strikes - Rank I - Strike multiple times in the same fashion (slashes, punches, etc) at high speed. At Rank I, three attacks can be made at half the power of a normal strike.
• Guard - Rank I - Increase Physical Defense automatically when attacked for a short time and block attacks with muscle memory. At Rank I, this lasts for a single attack and using other Skills at the same time is impossible.

Be careful, warrior, that you are not swept up in the bloodlust and rage of the Orcs...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

[ERode]

Name: Esfir

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 89

Past Life: They said there would never be another Great War, but it came nonetheless. For Esfir, it had been blurry memories of ash and snow, of an unending hunger and a crushing, impotent rage. She had been a child back then. Her father and brothers had served, marching off into the deathly grasp of winter to hold off those who would encroach upon the motherland. Her mother never recovered from that, and Esfir too knew she wouldn't either. Poverty continued. The victors of the war could not simply share their spoils, the third of the war to end all wars looming upon the horizon. She did her part, labored so that she could have even a sliver of a piece of the happiness that the government promised them all, once their scourge had fallen.

Somewhere along the way, Esfir had realized that she was the only surviving member of her family. Where had her father gone? Her brothers? Her sisters? Her mother? Her aunts and uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins?

Where had the country that she had been born in gone?

The Union ended and so did the war that never became a war. Winter was cold, made colder by isolation, coldest by poverty. She was too old to marry, too old to learn, too old to accumulate the wealth that she shouldn't have needed to. Her memories granted no solace, carved out as they were from misery and trauma. Across vast lands, buildings scraped the sky and broke the horizon, and yet she was not brought along with the tides of change. The enemy, the losers of a war fought and won by her father, were now one of the foremost economic powerhouses. Across the ocean, from an unimaginably distant measure away, the ones whom the Union played political games against were becoming the sole rulers of the world, obtaining dominion through technology and entertainment.

Who would carry on her family's history? Who would remember her and hers, if not herself? Esfir Kosova, a spinster withering away in an abandoned shack in the middle of a barren forest, two hours away from civilization. Huddling in front of a woodfire stove, listening to the static of a radio older than herself, whispering half-forgotten songs from a childhood that never was. Every day growing weaker. Every day able to do less. Every day feeling more and more of the same thing.

Hatred, carved out of the bedrock of a grief that never left. Hatred, rising every time her back agonized as she bent down to pick up a can that she could recycle for a penny. Hatred, towards promises broken and oaths unfulfilled, towards the revolution and utopia that failed, towards the world that developed only by consuming the downtrodden and spitting out their bones in alleyways and sewers.

Hatred, enduring as a tundra's permafrost.

Hatred, vicious as a starving wolf's bite.

Hatred, an eternal, weighty substance, one that so thoroughly stained this soul of hers that she could neither forgive nor forget, even once the world she knew was lost to her forever.

How could she, after all? After all this time, after all this grief, how could she possibly be satisfied with pretending as if none of it happened, just so she could now toil away in a new world as a primitive half-beast?

It was out of the question.

New Life:
Day 0, Orc Runt > Awakening

[Lucius Cypher]

Ya really thought you could run an orc isekai RP and think I wouldn't notice ya, Zeroth!? Your greatest pain in the ass is back, and I'm ready to bring hell with me where I go!

My Hider

His general appearance, even if not his current one.

Name: Gren

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 27

Past Life: In the past, Gren was a nobody. Or rather, he was much like anyone else at first: bit of a shy kid, had a bright future ahead of him, had some talents and some problems. His problem? Gren was a big guy. Like freakishly big, even compared to his parents or siblings. Despite being born the youngest son out of five kids, Gren hit six feet by age 14, with a boatload of health problems that come with growing huge. Not to mention all the expetations of him controlling his strength and not hurting anyone. And for the most part he tried... But as most of these stories go, all it took was one moment of weakness that made Gren lost much of what he had worked so hard for. One punk testing him too far, and all Gren had to do was nudge him down a flight of stairs.

Suddenly Gren was a problem child. Barely even touched the kid but because of that tumble he didn't make it to the hospital alive. Everyone feared him and he was put to a juvenile detention center. Things didn't get much better there, as Gren quickly learned that being the biggest didn't mean anything if everyone was willing to knock him down a peg. So he quickly learned how to make some friends, and part of making friends was being willing to have less scruples when it comes to what his friends do. Sometimes fighting, mostly stealing, with the occasional robbery. Gren quickly learned how to make the most of his size and if he hadn't gotten into trouble, he could've made a damn good linebacker or wrestler. Everyone likes to think they could out speed him or take his punches, until their head hits pavement. Even after he graduated juvie, Gren continued his life of crime, committing more robberies, heist, and shakedowns, putting his massive girth to use to scare off the competition and crack some skulls.

Gren met his end during a robbery. It was suppose to be a typical job: break into the shop, grab the goods, and go. But someone had tipped the store owner that they were coming. The old man showed up and started shooting. Somehow despite being about as big as a door, Gren managed to avoid getting capped and made a run for it. Right into traffic, where he finally met his match against someone bigger than him: Good ol' Truck kun. But Gren gave it as good as he could, wrecking the truck in the collusion as it smashed every bone in his body.

New Life:
Day 0, Orc Runt > Awakening

[King Cosmos]

Lots of muscle-headed fighters here. I guess "Orc" just makes people want to make melee builds.

Anyway, here's my contribution. I tried to abridge the backstory as much as possible but it's still too long; at least I spared you all the 10 page original.

Akeno the Orc

Future appearance

Name: Akeno

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 18

Past Life:
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Akeno is the daughter of Japanese immigrants, her parent’s second child and the first one born on American soil. When moving to America for her father’s work, her parents wanted to bring as much of their culture with them as possible, both being fairly traditional and old fashioned in terms of their beliefs and values. As such, Akeno grew up very much immersed in and aware of Japanese culture despite never visiting the country herself; she learned to speak English and Japanese alongside each other, ate Japanese food, and learned Japanese history. Furthermore, her parents still follow a number of Shinto traditions, though they have had to let several traditions slip away due to the fact that following them is harder in America than back in Japan; Akeno does not consider herself to be religious, mostly because Shinto isn’t a ‘religion’ in that sense, but still follows some of the Shinto traditions alongside her family.

Growing up, Akeno was close to her older brother at first, until their differing relationships with their parents drove a divide between them. Being the oldest and also being the only boy, her brother was seen as the golden child in their eyes, especially her mother; Akeno was constantly compared to him, always unfavourably, always getting in trouble for things they both did. If she failed to do something, she was told to be more like her brother, who never failed. If she succeeded, then she was just meeting the expectations her sibling had set, which was not worthy of praise. As she grew older she would try to fight back against these double standards, to little success, but it was seeing how her brother failed to do the same, never standing up for her or supporting her, that finally soured their relationship.

Even after this, Akeno still tried to appease her parents; to be seen to be as good as her brother in their eyes, if only to spite them and prove that she could. Academically Akeno was an average to above average student, always managing to pass her classes even if she didn’t excel at anything in particular. When her parents, particularly her mother, pressured her to try and do better, Akeno worked herself as hard as she could in order to push her grades higher. Through this effort, and many late nights of studying, she was able achieve straight A’s. However, even this wasn’t enough to please her parents who instead simply changed to criticising her studying habits and late nights instead, leaving Akeno despondent. By the time Akeno was finishing elementary school and starting middle school she was burned out from trying to maintain an impossible standard and had given up trying to please her parents academically or trying to compete with a brother who she had long since stopped looking up to.

In her final year of elementary school her parents tried to push her towards taking up an extracurricular activity. Her brother, of course, was already taking part in one by being on his school’s soccer team and this was another push to be more like him; her parents likely wanted her to take up a sport of some kind as well, or at least join a club that would look good on applications. She had no interest in this and wanted to just tell them no, but parents were insistent and Akeno decided to choose something that they would never approve of in an attempt to get them to drop the issue. She knew that her mother hated the idea of her brother doing anything dangerous, vetoing any sport with contact rules and even initially feeling uneasy with him playing a sport with as much risk of injury as soccer; as such when it was her turn to pick Akeno said she wanted to do a martial art of some kind thinking that the same would apply to her. Initially things went as expected with her parents telling her to pick something else, even making suggestions, but Akeno was adamant in the hopes they would give up. But to her surprise her father ended up changing his mind and agreeing to her taking up a martial art, with her mother reluctantly agreeing to it as well with the caveat that she wouldn’t actually be fighting anyone.

Because of this Akeno found herself enrolled at a Gōjū-ryū karate dojo to learn the sport variant of the martial art. She had only been half serious when suggesting it, but Akeno was forced to take the lessons seriously; otherwise she would have to admit to her parents that she didn’t actually want to learn karate in the first place, which would be a humiliating thing to admit after putting her foot down on the matter. She threw herself into her lessons at the dojo with vigour, if not quite enthusiasm, and initially struggled due to her level of fitness and being unable to follow the lessons properly. She wanted to quit, but was already committed, and at some point things just began to click; the lessons became easier to understand and when she hit puberty and had a growth spurt, shooting up in height, things became even easier. Despite her insincere reasons for starting, Akeno quickly grew to enjoy karate after that.

A year later Akeno expressed a desire to enter tournaments; sport karate, point-based with light contact and padding. Her parents were initially against it as it specifically went against her mother’s caveat of her not fighting anyone, but her father was quick to change his mind when she set out of convince him and she assured him it was safe. A few years after that, around when she entered high school, she decided wanted to take the next step and start learning the traditional version of karate instead of the sport variant and also to begin competing in full contact tournaments. She knew that this time it would be a lot harder to convince her parents to let her do this however and she spent most of her summer holiday after graduating middle school working up the courage to ask for permission, expecting to be completely forbidden from even trying full-contact karate and willing to fight her case in response. What followed was the longest and loudest fight she had ever had in her life, as she and her mother argued back and forth with no end in sight, neither one of them willing to budge on the matter. Once again, her father choosing to side with her was the deciding factor saying that he would support her desire to take part in full-contact tournaments so long as she was sure it was what she wanted. At her next lesson her father made the necessary arrangements for her to transfer to the traditional karate classes; she has since managed to obtain her black belt at the beginning of her final year of high school and regularly entered both sports and full contact tournaments.

At the time of her death, Akeno was rapidly approaching graduation and had already applied to and had been accepted to the university of her choice; she was entirely sure what it is she wanted to do with her life and had been planning to study English literature in the meantime. It ended up being a moot issue however when she was cornered by a mugger on her way home from school one day. She didn’t try to fight back, her experience with fighting was good enough she knew not to try anything against the knife he was holding, and was prepared to just hand over her wallet and phone and get it over with; it probably would have worked and she would have made it home safe, had someone not stumbled across them and shouted out, startling the mugger into lashing out and stabbing her somewhere vital.

Maybe she should have fought back anyway.

New Life:
Day 0, Orc Runt > Awakening

[ReusableSword]

@Zeroth here you go

sure is nice to see some of the old faces out of the 30 or so characters that were here in the last one lol

Agar

Appearance:
Agar has the normal light green skin of his clan with black hair naturally growing down the center of his head towards his neck giving him a natural mow hawk. His yellow eyes hold a sense of understanding that would be rare to see in younger orc’s with his left tusk only slightly more pronounced then his right. A bit leaner and taller than some of his peers but only slightly.

Name: Agar (Pronounced A-gar)

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Field Scan - Rank I - Ingested Skill. Detect life signs around the user within 30 feet, and remain aware of them for 1 minute.
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 45

Past Life:
Agar was once known as Johnathan, a man from the great state and forests of Montana. Now his upbringing wasn’t much to be known about. A healthy relationship with his parents and brothers, growing up on a cattle ranch, and doing okay through high school. Nothing spectacular other than a few good games of football and enjoying his time hunting and fishing with his family.

After high school he joined up with the army infantry, eventually made it through ranger school and went on to serve two tours in Afghanistan leading a few squads of men and women. The time he served really got him a good understanding of leadership and the absolute worst that humanity could do and be. Some of those things never really leave you. After 5 years and luckily no serious combat injuries Johnathan was honorably discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant.

Returning to his family home he quickly returned to the ranching life style. A ranch with equal amounts of valley and mountainside acreage at about 500 acers and 200 heads of cattle at any given time. The ranch always had work to be done. He himself found most of his time spent under the stars, repairing fence by horseback, and keeping the predator population in check. It is not an uncommon sight to find a large bear, pack of wolves, or some big cat harassing the heard. Never finding that he was afraid of them out in the forest by himself, close encounters sure but never afraid.

The beauty of the natural areas he always found himself in was not lost on him. Finding song sure did help to pass the time and fight his demons. Normally finding himself singing country or rock songs for his friends and family or just the cattle in the mountains. Solitude was no stranger to him and it wasn’t abnormal for him to go wander off into the forest for a week or two and come back fine. The army taught him discipline, his family taught him how to survive, and the forest taught him how to thrive.

One day while making a run into town with his pa to get some medicine for one of their dogs he met the local veterinarian. A cute blue eyed red head with a personality as hot as her red hair and a love for all animals. It wasn’t too long before they were dating then married. They built a house on the ranch and had a couple kids. If you were to ask him he would say he was a good dad and tried his best every day to be a good man, always there to help if you called.

One early winter morning he was coming back from taking his boys to school. There was a storm coming in and he was sure to make the point that a small storm wouldn’t stop them from going to school. Both of his boys were in high school with one planning to join the army after graduating. The storm came in on his way back home strong, with the already snow packed and icy roads it was dangerous but not something he wasn’t used to. The driver of the fully loaded 18 wheeler hauling steel beams did not have the experience that he did. In a moment of the thick snow fall and a patch of ice the big rig entered his lane. The last thing he remembered was the horn of the truck and then nothing.

New Life:
where in da hell am I?

[Crusader Lord]

@Zeroth Well, here goes something! If we have some average people and a boxer and an ex-Soviet as concepts so far, then I will add another oddity to the growing pile! :P

Lazash

Appearance As A Youth (Big Picture So Hiding It In Here)

Name (Former): Lilith Maria Rowell

Name (Current): Lazash

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 31 years, 6 months

Past Life:

An incredible photographic memory. Academic excellence and learning capabilities on the level of a genius child prodigy. Gifts of her person that many would praise , even as her academic capabilities exponentially accelerated her up in the world. Gifts from birth that many would look upon with the greenest of envy, even as they tried to isolate and diminish her. Born of a relatively ‘average’, for whatever the word was worth, middle-class suburban household in the USA, she was the third of four children and given just as much love as the rest from the start. Her gifts and the encouragement to use them propelled her to get her first master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering by the age of twelve, and saw her garner both praise and isolation from her own age group alike. She did not know great hardships for a long time in her life, but she did often find herself watching things from the sidelines. Observing. Taking mental notes.

Where did someone like her belong? It was hard to think about that, as she had little choice in it for much of her life due to being underaged. But with all her gifts her life seemed certain to become something incredible, to achieve something amazing-

And yet all the gifts in the world weren’t preparation for what came next.

What came next would be a three-year-long stint on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, her being the only survivor of a shipwreck at sea where she’d been taken on a scuba-diving trip by an uncle from Honolulu, that shook her out of the world she’d been in before. Little food, the heat of the scorching sun, the dangers of the tempting salty water, and at the age of sixteen she would manage her own survival by the will to live and skin of her teeth before discovery by a passing cargo ship (when she lit a large signal fire she’d carefully constructed for some time before to try to signal it). It was this, and her passage into adulthood, that would eventually mark her in a way that nothing else in her life had. Survival. An awoken desire to live that she had never known before, a resilience born from harsh conditions and a number of near-death instances out there, but all of which she would never forget.

She would return to her education and achieve greater heights after her recovery, though a path having been wrought clear before her more than ever before and her life in control of her own two hands. Lilith would work to become a Civil Engineer, with a supplementary education fitting for an Architect, and this would be the field she would end up in. At the same time, however, her life of survival would not simply go away after the episode of survival in her youth. She would survive two lightning strikes, being stuck underwater for two days in an air pocket of a capsized ship over deeper underwater before being rescued, and getting out alive from two horrendous car crashes. Each time she pulled herself out of the other end, pushing onward with a seemingly renewed vigor to live and thrive each time.

Ultimately, however, it would be as she was on her way to meet with a special high-profile client for the company she worked for that her life would be abruptly cut off. Walking through an airport parking lot of her own design to get to the airport inside, a fleeing suspect driving away from police would dip into the airport parking lot in some attempt to lose the police chasing him after he’d kidnapped someone. In the process, she would be struck by the criminal’s truck as the driver got distracted looking behind himself and ran her at a whopping 88 miles per hour.

Cue waking up as something else somewhere else. On one hand, she could and would never forget what had forged her in the fires of her past. But what was a new chance at life, if not using and living it to its fullest extent? Besides, having been born beautiful this time around (by some race out there's standards she would suppose) would itself be a most curious additional factor in her new life as well.

New Life:

Day 1, Orc Runt >

[Zeroth]

@ERode Very well done, y u gotta make me sad like dis? :( Choose ONE from the following list!

...In some ways, perhaps your world is just as brutal as ours, despite its lack of magic and monsters. I am filled with sorrow by the misfortunes you have suffered, though I am sure an apology from myself--no doubt, to you, a half-baked sympathy of empty condolence--means little.

I will not promise you utopia, nor equality. All I am granting is...perhaps...an opportunity.

• Frost Arc - Rank I - An expanding spray of icy cold, over 10 feet in one direction and 5 feet wide at its furthest edge. The cold is more intense the closer the target is to the origin, reaching its lowest temperature within a span of about 2 feet. It constantly expends Magic Power the longer the cone is maintained.
• Scavenge - Rank I - Ingested Skill. Quickly identify useful items in the surroundings. When the User concentrates, "useful" items within 10 feet of them will appear to glow to their sight.
• Resist Frost - Rank I - Passively increase one's resistance against cold temperatures, the Slow status effect, and ice elemental damage from Spells or physical attacks.
• Fury - Raise physical attack power greatly at the cost of the ability to use other Skills while this one is active. Consumes Stamina.

I will hope that, despite its differences, this world can somehow offer you more than you had before...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

@Lucius Cypher *jumps to a higher foothold and throws cape back dramatically* Yet another returns to bend the knee! But wait--is this...aahhh, I see. By all means, then, FOOL! COME AT ME! *throws all the robes and belts and anime-fantasy gear off with a single tear from the shoulder, Yakuza style* ...Oh, and also pick ONE.

You...you almost seem an Orc already, in Human flesh. Though perhaps you will do well here, I must admit it seems to go against the grain of this...trial. I cannot help myself, for it is in my nature to encourage you thusly: It is not too late to change your path. To redeem yourself.

• Breakthrough - Rank I - A single powerful strike, from any type of physical attack, that will ignore an enemy's defenses. At Rank I, the specific target's defense is treated as halved (Strike a shield, the shield's DEF bonus is the target. Strike their arm, whatever protection they have on that limb is treated as the target. Etc).
• Guard - Rank I - Increase Physical Defense automatically when attacked for a short time and block attacks with muscle memory. At Rank I, this lasts for a single attack and using other Skills at the same time is impossible.
• Smash - Rank I - Powerful Bludgeoning Attack to enhance a blunt weapon, fists, etc.
• Tough - Rank I - Passive increase to one's natural defenses. At Rank I this increase is small, but every little bit helps.

Just because others see you as a monster, does not mean you must become one. Your strength could protect many more than it has harmed, if only you wish to do so...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

@King Cosmos How else would you build an Orc, save with muscle? Also, curse you for exploiting my passion for Karate! Pick your ONE and go already!

Too late do many children learn that their parents, too, are merely mortal--flawed, subjective in their perceptions, and not always able to see the world through any lens save their own. But you should know, that though it was a flawed, subjective, and sometimes selfish love...it was love just the same.

• Martial Arts (Goju-ryu) - Rank I - Increase physical power and close combat accuracy when there is no weapon equipped. Individual Styles may have secondary effects that imitate, alter, or tie into other skills. At Rank I, this Skill must be actively triggered, and consumes extra stamina when active.
  • Goju-ryu, the Hard-Soft Method: Secondary effect produces a small additional boost to counter attacks after receiving a blow with the traditional blocks.
• Rapid Strikes - Rank I - Strike multiple times in the same fashion (slashes, punches, etc) at high speed. At Rank I, three attacks can be made at half the power of a normal strike.
• Riposte - Rank I - Parry or block an attack and deliver a counterstroke with increased damage. At Rank I, this increase is roughly 25% added to the original strike's power.
• Flicker Step - Rank I - Move at high speed in a straight line over a short distance. Rank increases distance and speed. At Rank I, the distance is equivalent to two times the User's full length stride.

...Personally, I am a believer that, if a criminal victimizes another...you cannot know their true intentions or their capacity for evil. In light of that lack of knowledge, I believe the defender should act as if the greatest possible threat were a certainty, and do whatever they feel they must.

Divine Spirit Jehanne

@ReusableSword It just makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it? ...Or maybe that's just the new lava I had poured in my Demon Palace moat... Anyway, choose ONE! And why are you making me sad too, ya bastard?!

Some say that the Orcs were born on the battlefield; the twisted hearts of soldiers in trenches and mass graves, brought out by years of brutal conflict like a blooming flower in the warmth of spring. As if within the heart of every man or elf is an Orc waiting to be set free--the intrusive thoughts, the trauma within the soul, the battlefield that many soldiers never return from even after their bodies are back home among family and friends. I will hope that your experience with war was not so tragic.

• Field Scan - Rank I - Ingested Skill. Detect life signs around the user within 30 feet, and remain aware of them for 1 minute.
• Familiar Bond - Rank I - Create a magical bond with a creature to tame it. Unlike Summoning, this often requires a great deal of time spent, and the creature must remain by the tamer's side. Rather than expending magic power, the proper resources must be present to maintain the Familiar's needs. At Rank I, only Tier I creatures can be persuaded to become a Familiar.
• Channel Weapon - Rank I - Produce a special physical energy aura to increase the power and durability of a given weapon. Consumes Stamina as long as the aura is maintained, or until after a successful attack has made contact. At Rank I, the boost is roughly 5% the weapon's original qualities.
• Danger Scan - Rank I - Detect non-living threats within 10 feet, such as hazardous terrain, traps, etc. Remain acutely aware of them for 1 minute.

If it is any solace to you, the truck driver was not harmed, and though your family has been broken by the loss, they are well cared for by loved ones and friends...

Divine Spirit Jehanne

@Crusader Lord Why do I want to yell "Bazinga" after reading her backstory? XD Pick your ONE Skill to carry over, then!

...Oh my. Are...are you sure that curses don't exist on Earth? The sheer probability of all these disasters...I shall hope that this Luck statistic does not carry over into the next life for you. And I have high hopes for you in this experiment--many have long wondered if intelligence is the primary factor that makes the Orc race so brutal. I look forward to seeing the changes you will most certainly bring about!

• Type Analysis - Rank I - Choose a specific Type for this Skill: Creature, Magic, or Material. Upon analyzing a target, information relevant to the chosen type will be displayed. Higher Ranks will grant more detailed information. (For example, using Creature Analysis on a Slime would tell you the most generic, widely known information on Slimes as a species)
• Magical Memory - Rank I - Normally, this Skill requires the User to be capable of at least one other Magic Skill. By spending a required amount of time in preparation, a Spell can be set to "auto cast" under a specific circumstance. At Rank I, only 1 Spell can be set at a time, its autocast is half as powerful as normal, and it must be reset every day.
• Tough - Rank I - Passive increase to one's natural defenses. At Rank I this increase is small, but every little bit helps.
• Recover - Rank I - Slowly heal in small increments while not moving. Other healing spells or items used while this skill is active are more effective, but the User cannot perform any other Skills or major actions while this Skill is in effect. Continuously drains Magic Power while in use.

Divine Spirit Jehanne

*wipes sweat from brow* Good Lord please tell me that's everyone? Once you've chosen your Isekai Skill, just let me know and edit it in! I think every profile I've looked at so far can be approved at this point, and added to the CS tab.

[ERode]

So how is Magic Power calculated when one doesn’t have any like, magic skills to begin with?

[Zeroth]

So how is Magic Power calculated when one doesn’t have any like, magic skills to begin with?

@ERode

Basically, while there aren't a bunch of stats and dice rolling like in a tabletop game or regular RPG, I've sort of got this arbitrary system running in the background. As players test their limits with different skills, get into fights, etc I'll let them know when they're "running low on MP" or "HP is decreasing over time," and so forth. It's just a "soft magic" form of the usual Isekai Numbers Game in an RPGverse. If you'd like a more detailed explanation to start with, for a "constant" spell like Frost Arc, I imagine at this level a thirty second continuous application would drain all the MP Esfir has. Within that thirty seconds though, it'd be like exposing an enemy to a relatively severe ice storm.

[SubjectVision]

*wipes sweat from brow* Good Lord please tell me that's everyone?

@Zeroth

:)

Rik

Name (Former): Federico

Name (New): Rik

Current Stats:
Level: 1 | Form: Orc Runt | Tier: 2

Current Skills:

• Ingestion - After consuming a required amount of biomass from a particular Creature, 1 of that Creature's Skills can be copied at its lowest Rank.
• Isekai Skill - Not Yet Chosen
• Empty Skill Slot
• Empty Skill Slot

Equipment and Inventory:

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.

True Age: 52 years, 2 months

Past Life: "You'll never be a man like that". "Big boys don't cry". "Toughen up". Words and phrases that repeated across Federico's childhood, more often than not echoed by the smack of a leather belt that tried to deafen the shout piercing his ears. He was unlucky to be the second son, as everything he did was compared with the standard set by his elder just a year prior. "He didn't need help". "Why can't you be like him?". "You really are useless". He had no hobbies. None that he could call his own, anyway. Like every other kid in the neighborhood, he played football on the dirt of the streets with goals made of shirts and buckets. Unlike his brother, he was left for the near last, given his lack of coordination. He grew out of it, but kids rarely forget these things. "God, you suck". "Why do you keep bringing him along?". "Hey, watch out!". It was a poor neighborhood, so the roads weren't well maintained. And some cars weren't either. There was little time to move out of the street, and he had frozen in place. His brother, though, was better than that.

The beatings stopped, for a time. The shouts went silent. The belt didn't come out anymore. All that remained was quiet, bitter contempt. Resentment. Blame. It was too cruel to be stated, but too present to be ignored. "It's your fault". "Why did it have to be him? Why are we stuck with you?". Any cheer the house might've had disappeared. All that was left was an empty bunk, and an unattainable standard. One that'd loomed over Federico for the rest of his days to come.

Years passed. His grades improved. His performance as well. He was now the first pick for sports. There were girls that had crushes on him. The teachers and parents approved of him. How decent he was. How reliable. What a catch, what a catch. He had a bright future ahead of him. He seemed to have adjusted well after the traged, but that was so far from the truth. It was the tragedy that fueled him. The other's didn't know, but there was always someone better. Someone who'd do better than he was doing now, if he hadn't stayed still that one day.

He got married, after a while. He got a decent job, and was progressing through the corporate ladder. He was amicable. Relatable. A good leader, one who led by example. One who always had a solution for everything. His department was improving. But it could always be better, right? Fernando? We could've saved more. We could've made bigger profits. I missed a bit of salt here. I should've known there'd be an offer around the corner. He lacked joy. He lacked happiness. All that remained within him was the bitter resentment that had pushed him forwards towards success. He knew no other way of living. He hadn't learned any other path. And his wife knew that all it'd take was one misstep.

"Nothing that can be done, Fede". "We'll contact you later in regards to your severance". "I'm sorry. Goodbye". It took only a year. On his way to a promotion, a subordinate made a mistake. He promised to take care of it. He bit much more than he could chew. He should've known better. He should've have dug that deep. He shouldn't have said anything at all. Every company has skeletons in its closet. Good values are bad for business. He had nowhere to go after this. And he knew. He knew, deep in his heart, that Fernando would've known better.

He turned to the bottle. To the slots. To the horses. Why would someone hire a fuck up like him, after all? He was reluctant to step out of misery, finding it more comforting that the ghost of his resentful father. His wife left him, taking their son as well. He knew it was his fault, but what could he do? He had no chance at a future. He didn't deserve it. He had already stolen his from someone far more deserving from it.

Fate soon set to make right when the man himself didn't dare to make the step. Empty bottles littered the table. His stomach grumbled. He turned on the stove. Checked the fridge, and saw he had nothing, and cursed himself under his breath as he hobbled upon a couch. He passed out soon after, unaware of a flame having gone off and the gas seeping through the kitchen as the hours passed. All it took was a single spark for all to be made right again.

To give this man a second chance.
New Life:
Day 1, Orc Runt >

[Crusader Lord]

@Zeroth

So Tough is basically raising non-magical defenses, like how durable or resilient one's body is-

-but Recover is on the other hand basically the lowest level tier of some kind of regeneration fueled by one's magical power passively?

I hope I got that right.

I am tempted by type analysis because it would fit so well, and setting magic to auto-cast would be something that feels about as good since her learning magic is something I'd like, but ranking up some kind of regeneration into a potent skill would be...kinda fitting for her after this death.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa

XD